Horizon - 2001
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two11 Episodes
The Mystery of the Miami Circle
Season 38 - Episode 1
Builders in Miami, Florida unearth a ring of holes. The State then pays $27million to preserve either a Native American village or remnants ...
The Missing Link
Season 38 - Episode 2
A trail from Greenland to Britain via Latvia offers new evidence into how evolution could have seen aquatic life form legs and walk.
Killer Algae
Season 38 - Episode 3
A tropical seaweed that escaped from an aquarium is endangering sea life in the Mediterranean and has gone on to infect the California coast...
Ecstasy and Agony
Season 38 - Episode 4
Tim Lawrence was an all-action stuntman until hit by Parkinson's Disease. Horizon follows his hopes of a more normal lifestyle using Ecstasy...
Snowball Earth
Season 38 - Episode 5
The controversial theory that for millions of years the Earth was plunged into catastrophe - entirely smothered in ice up to one kilometre t...
Taming the Problem Child
Season 38 - Episode 6
Two disruptive children are followed through a controversial treatment regime.
The Mystery of the Persian Mummy
Season 38 - Episode 7
In November 2000, the international press reported an amazing find: a mummy, which was claimed to be that of an ancient Persian princess, ov...
The Ape that Took Over the World
Season 38 - Episode 8
In 2001, scientists announced an amazing discovery: the oldest skull of a human ancestor ever found. The 3 million year old fossil was remar...
Life Blood
Season 38 - Episode 9
Matthew Farrow was born with a rare and fatal blood disease, Fanconi's anaemia. His family and doctors thought he was going to die. Instead,...
The Death Star
Season 38 - Episode 10
Out in deepest space lurks a force of almost unimaginable power. Explosions of extraordinary violence, are blasting through the Universe eve...
Cloning the First Human
Season 38 - Episode 11
Doctors Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori claim they are ready to embark on the greatest human experiment of our age. They say they wil...